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Math Lecture Sheet – 09

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1 Basic Concepts 1
2 Class Practice: 2
• Numbers
3 Homework 11
4 Next Lesson 11

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 Basic Concepts:
These are the most common math topics in any competitive exam. It basically judges your ability
to juggle with numbers, form equations, and solve those using basic mathematical operations.
Everything you have learned so far will be used to solve the math problems in this chapter. Below
are some useful formulas:

1. (𝑎 + 𝑏)2 = 𝑎2 + 2𝑎𝑏 + 𝑏 2
2. (𝑎 + 𝑏)2 = (𝑎 − 𝑏)2 + 4𝑎𝑏
3. (𝑎 − 𝑏)2 = 𝑎2 − 2𝑎𝑏 + 𝑏 2
4. (𝑎 − 𝑏)2 = (𝑎 + 𝑏)2 − 4𝑎𝑏
5. 𝑎2 + 𝑏 2 = (𝑎 + 𝑏)2 − 2𝑎𝑏
6. 𝑎2 + 𝑏 2 = (𝑎 − 𝑏)2 + 2𝑎𝑏
7. 𝑎2 − 𝑏 2 = (𝑎 + 𝑏)(𝑎 − 𝑏)
8. (𝑎 + 𝑏)2 − (𝑎 − 𝑏)2 = 4𝑎𝑏
9. 𝑎3 + 𝑏 3 = (𝑎 + 𝑏)(𝑎2 − 𝑎𝑏 + 𝑏 2 )
10. 𝑎3 + 𝑏 3 = (𝑎 + 𝑏)3 − 3𝑎𝑏(𝑎 + 𝑏)
11. 𝑎3 − 𝑏 3 = (𝑎 − 𝑏)(𝑎2 + 𝑎𝑏 + 𝑏 2 )
12. 𝑎3 − 𝑏 3 = (𝑎 − 𝑏)3 + 3𝑎𝑏(𝑎 − 𝑏)

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 Class Practice:
1) If 1/4 of a number is 2 then 1/2 of the number is- (BBA 95-96)
(A) 1/8 (B) 1/4 (C) 1 (D) 4 (E) 8
2) If a/x + b=1, what is the value of x? (BBA 95-96)
(A) (1-a) (B) (b-1) (C) (1-a)/b (D) a/(1-b) (E) none of these
3) If y/x=1/5 and 2x+y=33, then what is the value of x? (BBA 03-04)
(A) 33/5 (B) 13 (C) 15 (D) 17.5 (E) None of these
4) If one number exceeds another number by 13 and the larger number is 3/2 times the smaller
number, then the smaller number is- (BBA 05-06)
(A) 13 (B) 26 (C) 31 (D) 39 (E) None of these
5) Ruma earns $ 8.5 per hour on days other than Sundays and twice that rate on Sundays. Last
week she worked a total of 40 hours, including 8 hours on Sunday. What were her earnings
for the week? (BBA 05-06)
(A) $272 (B) $340 (C) $398 (D) $408 (E) None of these
6) If 9 is 3/4 th of x, what number is 5/6 th of x? (BBA 08- 09)
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 14.4 (D) 15 (E) 27
7) Tickets to a cricket game costs Tk.40 for reserved seats and Tk.30 for general seats. If all 500
tickets were sold for Tk.17600, how many reserved seats were sold? (MBA 97-98)
(A) 240 (B) 275 (C) 270 (D) 260 (E) None
8) If x²+3x+10=1+x², then 𝑥 2 =? (MBA 98-99)
(A) 0 (B) 4 (C) 7 (D) 9 (E) None of these
9) A boy purchased some chocolates from a shop for Tk. 120. In the next shop he found that the
price per piece of chocolate is Tk. 3 less than that charged at the previous shop, and as such
he could have purchased 2 more chocolates. How many chocolates did he buy from the first
shop? (MBA 00-01)
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) None of these

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10) On an average, Arif sells 10 dozens of apple per day and Karim sells 12 dozens of apple per
day. Arif's selling price is 1.5 times as much as that of Karim's. If Karim's weekly sales is Tk.
4,200, what is Arif's weekly sales in taka? (MBA 02-03)
(A) 4,800 (B) 5,000 (C) 5,250 (D) 5,500 (E) none of these
11) A post office imposes a service charge of Tk. 75 per order on any money order in the amount
of Tk. 2500 or less, and Tk. 100 per order on any money order in amount from Tk. 2501
through Tk. 70000. If Mariam purchases 3 money orders in the amounts of Tk. 1825, Tk. 2500,
and Tk. 12750, what is the total service charge for her money orders? (MBA 04-05)
(A) 175 (B) 225 (C) 250 (D) 275 (E) 300
12) Coins are to be put into 7 pockets so that each pocket contains at least one coin. At most 3
of the pockets are to contain the same number of coins and no two of the remaining pockets
are to contain an equal number of coins. What is the least possible number of coins needed
for the pockets? (MBA 05-06)
(A) 7 (B) 13 (C) 17 (D) 22 (E) None of these
13) For a certain performance, x tickets for lower-level seats were sold at Tk. 10 each and y tickets
for balcony seats were sold at Tk. 6 each. If there were no other tickets sold and the number
of tickets sold for lower-level seats was 3 times the number of tickets sold for balcony seats,
which of the following expresses the total number of dollars from ticket sales in terms of x?
(MBA 05-06)
(A) 12x (B) 16x (C) 28x (D) 32x (E) 36x
14) If y% of x = 29 then x =? (MBA 07-08)
29𝑥 29𝑦
(A) 2900 (B) (C) (D) 29xy (E) None of these
𝑦 𝑥

15) If Anwar gets 2 taka from Boby, they will have the same amount of money. If Boby gets 2 taka
from Anwar, he will have thrice as much money as Anwar. How much money did Boby have?
(MBA 08-09)
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) None of these

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16) A class of 20 students borrowed library books for their research projects. Some of the
students borrowed 3 books each, and the rest borrowed 2 books each. If a total of 52 books
were borrowed, how many of the students borrowed 3 books each? (MBA 09-10)
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C)10 (D) 12 (E)13
17) Nasreen weigh X pounds where X is a whole number. If she gains 7 pounds, she will weigh
less than 120 pounds. If she gains 9 pounds, she will weigh more than 120 pounds. What is
Nasreen's weight in pounds? (BBA 93-94)
(A) 110 (B) 111 (C) 112 (D) 113 (E) None of these
18) In a concert, 100 tickets were sold in two unequal lots at two different rates. First lot was sold
at Tk.5 per ticket and the second lot was sold at Tk3.50 per ticket. If the total sales proceeds
was Tk.410, how many people got the cheaper tickets? (BBA 97-98)
(A) 75 (B) 60 (C) 50 (D) 40 (E) 30
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19) If x = 3 and y = 6 then the value of x in terms of y is? (BBA 96-97)
1 62 31
(A) 2y (B) 2𝑦 (C) 3𝑦 (D) 6𝑦 (E) 18y

20) The ancient Arabs calculated the area of a circle by subtracting 1/7 the diameter of the circle
from the diameter and then squaring the result. If d represents the diameter and A the area,
which of the following represents a formula for this method? (BBA 94)
1 1 1 2
(A) 𝐴 = 2(𝑑 − 𝑑)2 (B) A = 𝑑2 − (7 𝑑)2 (C) A = (𝑑 − 𝑑)
7 7

1 2 1 2
(D) A = (𝑑 − 7) (E) A = 𝑑 − (7 𝑑)

21) Three apples and four oranges cost Tk. 32. Four apples and three oranges cost Tk. 31. One
apple, 1 orange and 1 papaya cost Tk. 28. What is the cost of a papaya? (BBA 94)
(A) 18 (B) 20 (C) 21 (D) 17 (E) 19
22) A cake weighing 750g has three ingredients: flour, sugar, and fruits. There is twice as much
flour as sugar and one and a half times as much sugar as fruits. What is the quantity of sugar
(in gram) in the cake? (BBA 97-98)
(A) 50g (B) 125g (C) 250g (D) 100g (E) none of these

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23) An amount of money was divided between some people in such a way that if there had been
4 more people, everyone would have got Tk 16 less. But if there had been 4 less people,
everyone would have got Tk 24 more. How many people were there in the group?
(BBA 98-99)
(A) 32 (B) 24 (C) 20 (D) 16 (E) None of these
24) There are 200 questions in a three-hour examination. Among these questions are 50
mathematical problems. It is suggested that twice as much time be allowed for each
mathematical problems as for each of the other questions. How many minutes should be
spent on the mathematical problems? (BBA 98 - 99)
(A) 100 (B) 72 (C) 60 (D) 36 (E) 120
25) A machine costs m taka per day to maintain and n paisa for each unit it produces. If the
machine is operated 7 days a week and produces r units in a week, which of the following is
the total cost, in taka of operating the machine for a week? (BBA 00-01)
700𝑚+𝑛𝑟
(A) 7m+10nr (B) (C) 7m + nr (D) 7m+7nr (E) 700mnr
100
𝑎 𝑥 𝑥 𝑏
26) If + = + , then x=? (BBA 01-02)
𝑥 𝑎 𝑏 𝑥

𝑎 𝑎𝑏 𝑏
(A) ±√(𝑎𝑏) (B) ±√( ) (C) ±√( ) (D) ±√(𝑎) (E)None of these
𝑏 2

27) A trader bought 48 tube lights and found that 8 of the tube lights were broken during
transportation. As a result, his per unit cost was increased by Tk. 24. What was the cost of
each tube light? (BBA 02-03)
(A) 100 (B) 104 (C) 112 (D) 120 (E) none of these
28) A cashier reversed the digits of one customer's correct amount of change and thus gave the
customer an incorrect amount of change. If the cash register contained Taka 45 more than it
should have as a result of this error, which of the following could have been the correct
amount of change in Taka? (BBA 05-06)
(A) 83 (B) 45 (C) 54 (D) 65 (E) None of these

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29) A picnic was arranged by m students. Total cost of the picnic was estimated to be y taka.
Unfortunately, z students withdrew their names from the picnic. How much more taka would
each of the remaining students have to pay? (BBA 09-10)
𝑦 𝑦 𝑦 𝑦 𝑦 𝑦
(A) (B) (C) − (D) − (E) Cannot be determined
𝑚 𝑚−𝑧 𝑚−𝑧 𝑚 𝑚 𝑧
30) If 1+1/x=(x+1)/x, what is the value of x? (MBA 99-00)
(A) 1 only (B) + 1 or -1 only (C) + 1 or 2 only (D) 0 (E) all values except 0
31) The 356 members of Metro Chamber of Commerce will vote to choose a President. With 5
candidates seeking office, what is the least number of votes a successful candidate could
receive and yet have more votes than any other candidate? (MBA 00-01)
(A) 71 (B) 72 (C) 89 (D) 178 (E) 179
32) Arif gave x no. of stamps to Sharif. Then he gave Babu one more stamp than he gave Sharif
and he gave Asif two stamps fewer than he gave Babu. In terms of x, how many stamps did
Arif give to Babu, Sharif and Asif? (MBA 01-02)
(A) 3x (B) 3x+1 (C) 3x-1 (D) 3x+2 (E) None of these
33) The mile meter of a car misses every eleventh mile being traveled. After a certain time, the
meter shows that 1251 miles were traveled. How many miles were actually travelled?
(MBA 02-03)
(A) 1291 (B) 1325 (C) 1376 (D) 1421 (E) None of these
34) A picnic was attended by 240 persons. There were 20 more men than women and 20 more
adults than children. How many men were there in the picnic? (MBA 02-03)
(A) 240 (B) 75 (C) 110 (D) 130 (E) 200
35) Last year Mrs. Latif received Tk. 160 in dividends on her shares of Company X stock, all of
which she had held for the entire year. If she had had 12 more shares of the stock last year,
she would have received Tk. 15 more in total annual dividends. How shares of the stock did
she have last year? (MBA 05-06)
(A) 128 (B) 140 (C) 172 (D) 175 (E) 200

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36) A box contains only marbles. If 1/4 of the marbles were removed, the box would be filled to
1/2 of its capacity. If instead 100 marbles were added, the box would be full. How many
marbles are in the box? (MBA 09-10)
(A) 100 (B) 200 (C) 250 (D) 300 (E) None of these
37) If half the number of the female students enjoy watching movies and one-third of the male
students do not like to watch movies, what fractional part of the student body enjoys
watching movies? (BBA 99-00)
(A) 5/12 (B) 2/5 (C) 3/4 (D) 1/6 (E) Can't be determined
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38) If (𝑥 + 𝑥) = 3 calculate the value of 𝑥 3 + ? (BBA 01-02)
𝑥3

(A) 3 (B) √3 (C) 3√3 (D) 0 (E) None of these

39) A rope, x feet long, is cut into two pieces such that the length of one piece is 1 foot more than
twice the length of the other piece. Which of the following is the length, in feet, of the larger
piece? (BBA 03-04)
(A) (x+2)/2 (B) (2x+1)/2 (C) (2x+3)/3 (D) (2x+3)/3 (E) None of these
40) If 10>x>9 and 𝑥 2 =(10-y) (10+y), which of the followings is a possible value of y? (BBA 04-05)
(A) -7 (B) -6 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) None of these
41) A man purchased equal number of bananas at two different rates-one at the rate of 8 taka
per dozen and the other at the rate of 10 taka per dozen. After that, he sold those bananas
at an average rate of 11 taka per dozen and thus made a profit of 100 taka. How many dozens
of bananas did he purchase altogether? (BBA 09-10)
(A) 60 (B) 50 (C) 55 (D) 45 (E) 40
1 1 1 1
42) If − = 7 and − = 21, what is the value of x? (MBA 00-01)
7 𝑦 𝑥2 𝑦2
1 1 1 1
(A) (B) 3 (C) (D) (E) None of these
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43) In a journey from Banani to Motijheel half the people on a bus exit at each stop and no
additional passengers board the bus. If on the third stop the next to last person exits the bus,
then how many people were on the bus at the time of the start of the journey? (MBA 09-10)
(A) 20 (B) 16 (C) 8 (D) 6 (E) None of these
44) A shop in the IDB bhaban quotes the price of a local brand of computer with or without a DVD
writer. The computer with the DVD writer costs 29,000 takas. The computer without the DVD
writer costs 19,500 takas more than the DVD writer alone. What is the cost of the DVD writer?
(MBA 09-10)
(A) tk 4,000 (B) tk 4,500 (C) tk 4,750 (D) tk 5,000 (E) None of these
45) Azhar plans to visit the National Museum once each month in 2014 except in March and May.
when he plans to go three times each month. A single admission costs Tk 5.50, a pass valid
for unlimited visits in any 3-month period can be purchased for Tk 27, and an annual pass
costs Tk 80. What is the least amount that Azhar can spend for his intended number of visits?
(BBA 13-14)
(A) Tk 70 (B) Tk 75 (C) Tk 76.50 (D) Tk 80 (E) none of these
46) If x, y and z are positive integers such that when x is divided by y, the remainder is z and when
x is divided by z, the remainder is (y - 2), then which of the following must be true?
(BBA 14-15)
(A) z = y-1 (B) x + z is divisible by y (C) x-1 is divisible by y
(D) y is even (E) none of these
47) If x and y are positive integers and 1/X+ 1/y = 1/9, what is the difference between the
maximum and minimum value of x? (BBA 14-15)
(A) 40 (B) 60 (C) 80 (D) 100 (E) none of these
48) If x> z and y <- z, where z is a positive integer, then which of the following must be true?
(BBA 14-15)
(A) x/y>1 (B) x/y<-1 (C) x/y <0 (D) x + y >0 (E) none of these

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49) In the sequence 𝑎𝑛 , the n-th term is defined as (𝑎𝑛−1 − 1)2 , If 𝑎3 =64, then what is the value
of a₁? (BBA 15-16)
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 9 (E) none of these
50) Arif bought 17 pens of three colors - black, green and red which cost Tk 5, Tk 10 and Tk. 25
each. The total amount that Arif paid was Tk 205. If Arif bought twice as many green pens as
red pens, how many black pens did he buy? (BBA 16-17)
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) none of these
51) A certain bag contains 6 marbles, of which 4 are red and 2 are white in color. If Babu is to pick
out 2 marbles from the bag simultaneously and at random, what is the probability that one
is red and the other is white? (BBA 16-17)
(A) 1/5 (B) 1/3 (C) 1/15 (D) 8/15 (E) none of these
52) What is the units digit of the sum 344 +543 +212 ? (BBA 17-18)
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) None of these
53) This year Rana will save certain amount of his income, and he will spend the rest. Next year
Rana will have no income, but for each taka that he saves this year, he will have (1+r) taka
available to spend. In terms of r, what fraction of his income should Rana save this year so
that next year the amount available for his spending will be equal to half the amount that he
spends this year? (BBA 17-18)
(A) 1/(r+2) (B) 1/(2r+2) (C) 1/(r+3) (D) 1/(2r+3) (E) None of these
54) XYZ company hired an accountant and 8 office assistants to do a job. The daily wage for the
accountant is 4 times more than that of an office assistant. If the company paid a total of Tk
m for the work, how much was paid to the accountant? (BBA 17-18)
(A) m/3 (B) m/4 (C) 4m/11 (D) 2m/13 (E) None of these
55) One City-bus charges BDT 'p' for the first half-kilometer of a trip and BDT 'p/8' for each
additional half-kilometer. What is the charge for a trip whose distance in kilometers is the
whole number 'q'? (BBA 19-20)
(A) (7p+2pq)/8 (B) 8/ (7p+2pq) (C) (8p+pq)/8
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56) The three solutions of the equation f(x) = 0 are -2,0, and 3. Therefore, the three solutions of
another equation f(x-2) = 0 are: (BBA 19-20)
(A) -4, -2, and 1 (B) -2,0 and 3 (C) 4, 2 and 5
(D) 0,2 and 5 (E) None of these
57) 6 students did not participate and 10 students failed in an exam. Among the students, who
passed in the exam, Abir stood 15th from the top and 30th from the bottom in the merit list.
How many students were there in the class? (MBA 18-19)
(A) 44 (B) 10 (C) 15 (D) 20 (E) None of these
58) Three students P, Q and R are standing in a line. There are 5 students standing in the line
between P and Q, and 8 students standing in the line between Q and R. If there are 3 students
standing in the line before R, and 21 students standing in the line behind P, then what is the
minimum number of students standing in the line? (MBA 18-19)
(A) 41 (B)40 (C)28 (D)27 (E) None of these
59) The total number of plums that grow during each year on a certain plum tree is equal to the
number of plums that grew during the previous year, less the age of the tree in years
(rounded down to the nearest integer). During its 3rd year, the plum tree grew 50 plums. If
this trend continues, how many plums will it grow during its 6th year? (MBA 19-20)
(A) 43 (B) 41 (C) 38 (D) 35 (E) 32
60) If (x+8) (y+5) = 0, which of the following must be true? (MBA 19-20)
(A) x < 0 (B) y < 0 (C) xy < 0 (D) xy = -40 (E) None of these

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Answer Keys:
Mentors Math Qbank:
Concept 14 Question: 1, 3, 13, 16, 18, 23, 26, 29, 33, 38, 41, 45, 48, 50, 53, 55, 61, 63, 65, 66, 69,
…………………………………71, 72, 80, 83, 87, 91, 93, 96, 98, 99, 102, 103, 106, 110, 116, 119, 121, 123,
…………………………………128, 130, 132, 133, 138, 140, 141, 144, 149, 151, 155, 159, 161, 162, 163,
…………………………………165, 172, 174, 176, 178

Homework:
Practise all maths of concept 14 from Mentors Math Qbank

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